Glad to hear that. Make sure to post more info once it arrives. Next, you'll need a 36/P jacket, which I find to be far more useful than the 45/P.jback said:I got bitten by the Nomex bug last weekend at an airshow. Result: I just ordered a CWU 45/P, navy issue in sage green Shold arrive in a week.
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Glad to hear that. Make sure to post more info once it arrives. Next, you'll need a 36/P jacket, which I find to be far more useful than the 45/P.
Doctor Damage said:Glad to hear that. Make sure to post more info once it arrives. Next, you'll need a 36/P jacket, which I find to be far more useful than the 45/P.
If Finland's climate is anything like Canada's, then you will find a 45/P to be sort of useless in serious cold. I wore one this past winter and found it's a spring, fall jacket only!Sure! With the Finnish climate I think the 45/P will see more use
Thanks very much for the photos -- with patches too!The number is SPM1C1-10-D-1034. Looks like the same year. Can't quite figure out how to post a pic on here. Here's a link.
http://1drv.ms/1SINrlh
I also found this while messing around last night. It's solicitation from the Air Force written in 2011 to find a new material for flight jackets. Perhaps the traditional shiny Nomex has been replaced with something newer and cheaper.
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d37619bbc0afa97fd9549be91670c70b&tab=core&_cview=0
The number is SPM1C1-10-D-1034.
Yep, spring, fall and ****ty summer days. I went to an airshow in the beginnig of June. The first day I almost froze my ****s of. For the second day I wore woolen long underwear and a thick military type wool sweater under my A-2. A B-3 + t-shirt would also have been ok. In June!!!If Finland's climate is anything like Canada's, then you will find a 45/P to be sort of useless in serious cold. I wore one this past winter and found it's a spring, fall jacket only!
On a related note, the USN "shipboard" non-flyers jackets (Treetopflyer?) are made of navy blue nomex with a matte finish and seem to be made of a heavier cloth, so I think we can assume that Dupont or whoever has come up with a new aramid cloth and it's being used for all US military nomex garments.
Doctor Damage said:On a related note, the USN "shipboard" non-flyers jackets (Treetopflyer?) are made of navy blue nomex with a matte finish and seem to be made of a heavier cloth, so I think we can assume that Dupont or whoever has come up with a new aramid cloth and it's being used for all US military nomex garments.
Here's a used one, but US Wings sells them new LINK.I'm not sure which "shipboard non-flyers jackets" you are referring to (can you provide a picture?). I have never seen a navy blue nomex jacket worn in the U.S. Navy. We used to have a heavy cotton deck jacket that was typically green, but I have seen it in blue. However, that was over 15 years ago we stopped using them.
Make sure to post more info once it arrives.